2021 IIP Summer Internship Host Mentors Program Host PI Affiliation Personal web page Email Which project would you like to offer for the intern? 1. Barcoding and meta-barcoding of local lichen Jen-Pan Huang Academia Sinica https://sites.google.com/view/jenpanhuang [email protected] communities. 2. Hercules beetle genome assembly. http://www.biodiv.tw/en/people/faculty/dr- [email protected] Ryuji Machida Academia Sinica aquatic molecular ecology ryuji-machida .tw http://www.biodiv.tw/en/people/faculty/dr- John Wang Academia Sinica [email protected] Identification of selfish genes in nematodes john-wang Evolution, interactions and genomics of eukaryotic Chuan Ku Academia Sinica https://chuanku-lab.github.io/kulab/ [email protected] microbes (microalgae, giant viruses, protists) Field ecology of coral community, including coral http://www.biodiv.tw/en/people/faculty/dr- Yoko Nozawa Academia Sinica [email protected] reproduction, coral recruitment, coral long-term yoko-nozawa#lab-pi monitoring, reef fish, and sea turtles [email protected] fungal community assemblies of early diverging Ko-Hsuan Chen Academia Sinica https://kohsuanchen.wixsite.com/fungi .tw plant lineages BIODIV Sen-Lin Tang Academia Sinica http://sltang.biodiv.tw/ [email protected] Coral microbial community survey Deep time marine fossils: What are the possible Chien-Hsiang Lin Academia Sinica https://otolithlin.biodiv.tw/ [email protected] drivers shaping the diversity of marine organisms through geological time? National Taiwan http://web.ntnu.edu.tw/~treehopper/index.p Fighting Behaviour of Stag Beetles; Behaviroual Chung-Ping Lin Normal University [email protected] hp?page=home&lang=en Ecology of Damselflies (NTNU) http://biodiv.sinica.edu.tw/en/people/faculty Kuo-Fang Chung Academia Sinica [email protected] Phylogenomics of plants /dr-kuo-fang-chung#lab-pi Effects of abiotic and biotic environments on the http://www.biodiv.tw/en/people/faculty/dr- [email protected] Mao-Ning Tuanmu Academia Sinica diversity and structure of bird communities in mao-ning-tuanmu w cities http://www.biodiv.tw/index.php/en/people/f impact of climate change on corals, coral reef Allen Chen Academia Sinica [email protected] aculty/dr-chaolun-allen-chen governance, resilience http://www.biodiv.tw/index.php/en/people/f Social evolution, climate change biology, Sheng-Feng Shen Academia Sinica [email protected] aculty/dr-sheng-feng-shen biogeography http://www.rcas.sinica.edu.tw/faculty/jhlin.ht protein structure prediction based on distance and Jung-Hsin Lin Academia Sinica [email protected] ml angle restraints https://www.ibms.sinica.edu.tw/ming-jing- machine learning approaches to computational Ming-Jing Hwang Academia Sinica [email protected] hwang/ biology and medicine Developing bioinformatic strategies to analyse Pao-Yang Chen Academia Sinica https://paoyang.ipmb.sinica.edu.tw/ [email protected] genomics data This mitochondria database project would require BIOINFO National Taiwan skills in data science, including organizing data, An-Chi Wei https://ntubmse.com/ [email protected] University (NTU) building database as well as text mining and machine learning. Druggable DynOmics, a medicinal extension of National Tsing Hua Lee-Wei Yang https://dyn.life.nthu.edu.tw/ [email protected] DynOmics - http://dyn.life.nthu.edu.tw/oENM/ or University (NTHU) http://dynomics.pitt.edu/ National Taiwan https://www.ee.ntu.edu.tw/profile1.php?id=9 1) Artificial intelligent courses for handling clinical Eric Y Chuang [email protected] University (NTU) 9 data 2) Single cell rnaseq data analysis protocols https://www.ibc.sinica.edu.tw/people/investi Protein design with expanding genetic code approach [email protected] Yane-Shih Wang Academia Sinica gators/principal-investigators/yane-shih- and protein chemistry study in synthesizing branched u.tw wang/ ubiquitin and their functional studies. Optogenetics-based probing of organelle damage Wei Yuan Yang Academia Sinica https://www.ibc.sinica.edu.tw/yang/ [email protected] responses (1) vaccine response with a focus on germinal National Taiwan https://www.mc.ntu.edu.tw/pharmacology/V Shiang-Jong Tzeng [email protected] center reaction (2) development of novel cancer University (NTU) card.action?q_type=A02&q_itemCode=453 immunotherapy https://www.ibc.sinica.edu.tw/people/investi The project will focus on the synthesis of complex Todd Lowary Academia Sinica [email protected] gators/principal-investigators/todd-l-lowary/ glycans, likely related to microbial disease https://www.mc.ntu.edu.tw/pharmacology/V CBMB National Taiwan card.action?q_type=- Inflammasome and cell death-mediated Wan-Wan Lin [email protected] University (NTU) 1&q_itemCode=405&struts.token.name=toke inflammation n&token=1EBR3JC40QA9YHOF3GI7JQSGITWI [email protected] Hsiao-Ching Lin Academia Sinica https://sites.google.com/site/hsiaochinglab/ Natural Product Biosynthesis w Jiun-Jie Shie Academia Sinica https://shiejj.wixsite.com/shie-group [email protected] fluorescent dyes or small molecules synthesis Danny Hsu Academia Sinica http://sites.google.com/site/hsushangte [email protected] Finding coronavirus host receptors Research is related to drug discovery; gut infection, Hans Chun-Hung Lin Academia Sinica http://idv.sinica.edu.tw/chunhung/ [email protected] immunity and metabolites https://www.ibc.sinica.edu.tw/people/investi Identification of glycans serving as the Takashi Angata Academia Sinica [email protected] gators/principal-investigators/takashi-angata/ determinants of recognition by Siglecs Investigating the convective-scale heavy rainfall National Central https://sites.google.com/view/ncu- [email protected] Shu-Chih Yang predictability through a high-resolution ensemble Unviersity (NCU) predictability/home w data assimilation system National Tsing Hua TSAN-YAO CHEN https://tychencaeser.wixsite.com/mysite [email protected] CO2 reduction on heterogeneous nanoreactor University (NTHU) Probing the effects of climate change on ocean https://www.earth.sinica.edu.tw/member/inf Kuo-Fang Huang Academia Sinica [email protected] environments using elemental/isotope proxies in o/23?lang=en marine biogenic carbonates National Central Jia-Jyun Dong http://sr.geo.ncu.edu.tw:5755/en/ [email protected] Rock mechanics experiment operation Unviersity (NCU) Limnology and oceanography. Microbial ecology. https://www.rcec.sinica.edu.tw/?action=mem Fuh-kwo Shiah Academia Sinica [email protected] Plankton dynamics and the biogeochemistry of ber&id=15 carbon and nitrogen in aquatic ecosystems. National Taiwan ENSO prediction/forecast and global ocean Yu-heng Tseng http://coda.oc.ntu.edu.tw/coda/ [email protected] University (NTU) modelling X-ray fluorescence core scanning applications in National Taiwan http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~ludvig/People/ paleoclimatology and forensic geoscience. ESS Ludvig Löwemark [email protected] University (NTU) page1.html Applying element ratios to solve problems in geoscience. Thermal conductivity of Earth materials with Wen-Pin Hsieh Academia Sinica https://sites.google.com/site/whsieh2/ [email protected] implications for mantle and core dynamics http://www.earth.sinica.edu.tw/member/info Bio-geo-chemical cycles of carbon, nitrogen, Mao-Chang Liang Academia Sinica [email protected] /19 and/or oxygen. https://980198.wixsite.com/sinica-wu-cheng- Wu-Cheng Chi Academia Sinica [email protected] seismology chi National Taiwan Understanding the cycles of dissolved organic Haojia Ren https://www.abbyren.com/ [email protected] University (NTU) nitrogen in the ocean from nitrogen isotopes https://www.earth.sinica.edu.tw/member/inf Kwan-Nang Pang Academia Sinica [email protected] Using micro-XRF to characterize geo-materials o/24?lang=en marine trace metal biogeochemical cycling, the https://www.rcec.sinica.edu.tw/index_en.php role of Fe on coral bleaching, the role of Ni in Tung-Yuan Ho Academia Sinica [email protected] ?action=member&id=9 marine diazotroph's nitrogen fixation and hydrogen production, Develop a computational/mathematical model to [email protected] Sheng-hong Chen Academia Sinica https://celldynamicslab.mystrikingly.com investigate cellular robustness against drug w perturbations The specificity of neurodegeneration: how Shen-Ju Chou Academia Sinica http://icob.sinica.edu.tw/lab.php?id=28 [email protected] neurodegenerative diseases affect specific neuronal types. molecular mechanisms controlling neural circuit Chi-Hon Lee Academia Sinica http://icob.sinica.edu.tw/lab.php?id=45 [email protected] assembly National Yang Ming http://bml.ym.edu.tw/ibs/brain/TsaiLab/inde Investigation of cellular and molecular mechanisms Jin-Wu Tsai [email protected] University (NYMU) x.html for brain development and disorders https://www.ibms.sinica.edu.tw/wan-chen- Develop new tools for site-specific probing of Wan-Chen Lin Academia Sinica [email protected] INS lin/ neurotransmission. Glutamate receptor function in Shu-Ling Chiu Academia Sinica http://icob.sinica.edu.tw/lab.php?id=49 [email protected] neurodevelopmental disorders (intellectual disability and/or autism spectrum disorder) Cheng-Ting Chien Academia Sinica http://www.imb.sinica.edu.tw/~ctchien/ [email protected] Dendrite development and cell biology study To study neural and cellular bases of goal-directed spatial navigation: 1. establish mouse behavioral paradigm with virtual reality; 2. dendritic patch- https://www.ibms.sinica.edu.tw/ching-lung- Ching-Lung Hsu Academia Sinica [email protected] clamp recording; 3. establish pupil/behavioral hsu/ tracking (based on deep neural network); 4. computational modeling (multi-compartmental models of single neurons) https://ipmb.sinica.edu.tw/en/people/ipmb_r Lay-Sun Ma Academia Sinica [email protected] Fungal infection strategies in colonizing host esearchers/ma-lay-sun We focus on the biology of the selected diseases (e.g., diabetes, cancer and infections).